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#FYI: The Yankee Dog Guaidó Planned To Use Arms – Frustration Over Stalemate Sets In

New
reports about the U.S. coup attempt in
Venezuela describe the current mood in
Washington as ‘frustration’. They also
shine new light on why of the
opposition’s plans failed.

When the U.S. set out for the failed
‘humanitarian aid’ stunt at the border
between Colombia and Venezuela an
important role was given to its puppet,
the self-declared ‘president’ Juan
Guaidó. It was his task to bring the aid
across the border.

[One] option, pushed by those
looking for a more direct
confrontation with Mr. Maduro, would
have activists encircle an aid truck
in Colombia as it slowly makes its
approach to Venezuela. Under this
plan, protesters from Venezuela
would overrun soldiers stationed on
the Venezuelan side and allow the
aid to move in, possibly using a
forklift to push aside the
containers blocking the bridge.

In Curacao, opposition officials
were buoyed by the willingness of
the country’s foreign minister to
stage aid along a sea corridor long
used by Venezuelan migrants to flee
the country. But in recent
days, plans appeared to be falling
apart as politicians in Curacao
objected to the use of the aid as a
political weapon.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan
Guaido plans to head to the
Colombian border in a convoy of
vehicles on Thursday to receive
humanitarian aid for his
crisis-stricken nation, despite the
objection of increasingly isolated
President Nicolas Maduro.
…
He will undertake the 800-kilometer
(497-mile) road trip from Caracas in
the company of some 80 lawmakers
from the opposition-controlled
congress, which he leads, opposition
legislators said.
…
“Through this call for humanitarian
aid, the population will benefit
from the arrival of these goods to
the Venezuelan border,” said
opposition legislator Edgar Zambrano,
as he waited in a plaza of eastern
Caracas with other lawmakers to
board buses.

While Guaidó traveled to Colombia, the convoy from Caracas to the border never materialized. The attempt by a few stone throwing thugs to move two trucks with ‘aid’ across a bridge failed when the Venezuelan National Guard simply blocked them. Riots ensued and the thugs used Molotov cocktails to set the trucks on fire.

The whole stunt comically
failed. But until today it was
unclear why the issue was managed so
badly.

Late last month, as U.S. officials
joined Venezuelan opposition leader
Juan Guaido near a bridge in
Colombia to send desperately needed
aid to the masses and challenge the
rule of Nicolas Maduro, some
200 exiled soldiers were checking
their weapons and planning to clear
the way for the convoy.

Led by retired General Cliver
Alcala, who has been living in
Colombia, they were going to drive
back the Venezuelan national
guardsmen blocking the aid on the
other side. The plan was
stopped by the Colombian government,
which learned of it late and feared
violent clashes at a highly public
event it promised would be peaceful.
…
Alcalá, the retired general, did
acknowledge the plan to escort the
aid across the border and said he
understands why the Colombians
wanted to avoid trouble.

It seems that the politicians in
Bogotá did not objected “to the
use of the aid as a political weapon” as
the NYT reported, but got cold
feet over the plan, initially kept
secret to them, to cross the border by
military force. It would have been an
overtly hostile aggression against its
neighbor country, something that
Colombia is very keen to avoid.

In late January CNN
talked with uniformed young men who
claimed to be defectors of the
Venezuelan army. They begged the U.S. to
supply them with arms and communication
equipment. (How many did they receive?)
But the uniforms they wore had the wrong
markings. They showed a patch saying
“FAN” which stand for Fuerzas Armada
Nacional. Several years ago Venezuela
changed the name of its armed forces
into Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana
and all current uniforms show “FANB”. It
is possibly though that the interviewed
people were part of the 200 “exiled”
defectors or mercenaries who were
supposed to storm the broder.

Bloomberg further reports
that some important people are not happy
with Guaidó’s performance:

The U.S. officials who have driven
the Venezuela policy — Rubio,
National Security Adviser John
Bolton and special envoy Elliott
Abrams — continue to put on a brave
face, increasing economic and
diplomatic pressure and tweeting
daily about Maduro’s certain
departure.

Behind the scenes,
however, there is concern and
dismay.
…
[W]hen Guaido was in Colombia, its
president, Ivan Duque, expressed
frustration to him. Witnesses said
Duque complained about the failure
of Guaido’s promise to bring tens of
thousands of Venezuelans to the
border to receive the humanitarian
aid.

There have been other concerns.
Guaido was planning to make a tour
of European capitals this week to
build international support, but
the Americans told him
he needed to return to Venezuela or
he’d lose whatever momentum
remained.

During his travel to several Latin
American capitals Guaido was accompanied
by the State Department’s assistant
secretary for Western Hemisphere
Affairs, Kimberly Breier. The Department
describes her as “a policy expert
and intelligence professional
with more than 20 years of experience”.
She now seems to be Guaidó’s personal
minder.

The State Department’s frustration
that its plans failed are also visible
in
this clip from its press conference
where the spokesperson scolded the media
for calling Guaido “opposition leader”
or “self-proclaimed president” instead
of “interim president”. AP‘s
Mark Lee then reminds the spokesperson
that some 140 countries simply do not
recognize him as such.

Interestingly the State Departments
own media outlet Voice of America
used “self-proclaimed president” in at
least two of its recent pieces.

VOA then silently changed
those
articles to confirm with the new
“interim president” wording. It still
uses “opposition leader”.

The State Department’s frustration will increase over this prank (audio) by two Russian comedians who phoned up Elliot Abrams and induced him to demand the closing of non-existing “Venezuelan accounts” in Switzerland:

The pranksters also held one more
conversation with Abrams in March,
according to Russia 24, where the
Special Representative told them
that the US is not planning military
intervention in Venezuela, but would
like to “make the Venezuelan
military nervous,” regarding
possible guarantees ruling out
military threats from the US to be
“a tactical mistake.” However,
according to the phone call, Abrams
said that the main sources of
leverage against the Venezuelan
government are still financial,
economic and diplomatic pressure.

Opposition leader Juan Guaidó
stepped up efforts Tuesday to remove
President Nicolás Maduro, meeting
with public-sector unions and
calling for rolling strikes in a bid
to weaken the authoritarian
government.

Guaidó managed to draw about 100
leaders of state-employee unions to
the session. But only a few hundred
workers came, …
…
One union leader at the meeting,
Besse Mouzo, said the plan involved
organizing work stoppages that would
eventually lead to a general strike.
“We have to begin by convincing
people” to join the smaller strikes,
she said.

That effort is not likely to go
anywhere. Who would pay those workers if
they were to do so?

Bloomberg also says that the
are no plans for any open military
aggression. The plan for now is to
starve the people of Venezuela
into submission:

European and Latin American
diplomats say they are preparing for
a long and messy process in which
Maduro stays in power despite an
economy in tailspin. One Latin
American diplomat said Maduro has
learned from his patrons, the
Cubans, about how to be resilient.
Sanctions and international pressure
may wind up strengthening his
regime, at least in the short term.

Under economic sanctions the people
dependent on the government for their
needs. That is why sanctions never bring
a government down and only hurt those
who are already poor.

The situation is at a stalemate. The
U.S. will increase sanctions. Venezuela
will, like Iran and Syria, find ways
around them. Years later nothing
essential will have changed.

Guaidó may be an attractive looking
man capable of charming officials in
Washington. But he so far was not able
to get anything done. He has only few
followers and President Maduro simply
ignores him.

This was not the plan when this
‘regime change’ operation started. Trump
was promised a fast coup during which
the military
would jump to the site of the random
guy the neoconservatives sold to him as
“interim president”. That did not
happen. Plan B was the ‘humanitarian
aid’ gimmick which went likewise
nowhere. The idea to incited public
sector workers to strike is also not
realistic. There is no real military
option.

How much patience will Trump have as
the current situation festers? What will
he do when it runs out?